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North by Shakespeare : a rogue scholar's quest for the truth behind the Bard's work

Title

North by Shakespeare : a rogue scholar's quest for the truth behind the Bard's work / Michael Blanding.

Author

Blanding, Michael

Publication

New York : Hachette Books, 2021.
©2021

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Description

viii, 467 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm

Summary

"A work of gripping non-fiction, North by Shakespeare presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar Dennis McCarthy, called "the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community," and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the undiscovered source for Shakespeare's plays. For the last fifteen years, Dennis McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true source of Shakespeare's works, with fascinating results. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and other plays and Thomas North's published and unpublished writings-as well as Shakespearean plotlines seemingly lifted straight from North's colorful life. McCarthy's wholly original conclusion is this: Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before-many of them penned on behalf of North's patron Robert Dudley, in his efforts to woo Queen Elizabeth. That bold theory answers many lingering questions about the Bard with compelling new evidence, including a newly unearthed journal of North's travels through France and Italy, filled with locations and details appearing in Shakespeare's plays. North by Shakespeare alternates between the dramatic life of Thomas North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theatre, and academic outsider Dennis McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a highly readable drama, up-ending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius""--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue -- This blood condemns -- But thinking makes it so -- Remembering this realm -- Undreamed shores -- Princes' favors -- Blood and revenge -- By any other name -- Wonders of the world abroad -- True love never did run smooth -- It was Greek to me -- All that glisters -- Once more unto the breach -- To be, or not to be -- Full of sound and fury -- Our revels now are ended -- Such stuff as dreams are made on -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Timeline of the plays -- Appendix B: Examples of McCarthy's plagiarism techniques.

Call Number

JFE 21-7472

ISBN

9780316493246
0316493244

LCCN

2020052830

OCLC

1164502070

Author

Blanding, Michael, author.

Title

North by Shakespeare : a rogue scholar's quest for the truth behind the Bard's work / Michael Blanding.

Publisher

New York : Hachette Books, 2021.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7472

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